The ActiveRecord Tapes
Tess Griffin • Philadelphia, PA • Talk

Date: July 10, 2025
Published: not published
Announced: unknown

In this talk, we'll dig deep into the design decisions of the Attributes API. We'll talk to its author and hear their experience from "I think this would help with the current project I'm on!" to "Oh no, I'm rewriting all of ActiveRecord!".

This will be a peek under the hood to a foundational part of ActiveRecord. You'll learn about the difficult technical constraints and tradeoffs that were made in development. Even if you don't know anything about the Attributes API, if you've used ActiveRecord, you've used it! No prior knowledge needed.

RailsConf 2025